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Tommy Printiss, right, watches as Chase Marcanio skateboards along East Heinberg Street in Pensacola on Thursday, April 19, 2018. Both skateboarders are happy to hear that Pensacola will not be imposing a citywide ban. Gregg Pachkowski/gregg@pnj.com

Chase Marcanio, left, watches as Tommy Printiss goes airborne while skateboarding along East Heinberg Street in Pensacola on Thursday, April 19, 2018. Both skateboarders are happy to hear that Pensacola will not be imposing a citywide ban. Gregg Pachkowski/gregg@pnj.com

Tommy Printiss skateboards along East Heinberg Street in Pensacola on Thursday, April 19, 2018. Printiss is happy to hear that Pensacola will not be imposing a citywide ban. Gregg Pachkowski/gregg@pnj.com

Chase Marcanio skateboards along East Heinberg Street in Pensacola on Thursday, April 19, 2018. Marcanio is happy to hear that Pensacola will not be imposing a citywide ban. Gregg Pachkowski/gregg@pnj.com

Chase Marcanio skateboards along East Heinberg Street in Pensacola on Thursday, April 19, 2018. Marcanio is happy to hear that Pensacola will not be imposing a citywide ban. Gregg Pachkowski/gregg@pnj.com

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Chase Marcanio skateboards along East Heinberg Street in Pensacola on Thursday, April 19, 2018. Marcanio is happy to hear that Pensacola will not be imposing a citywide ban.(Photo: Gregg Pachkowski/gregg@pnj.com)

There will be no ban on skateboarding for the entire city of Pensacola, though there are already existing ordinances prohibiting skateboarding in some parts of the city.

Councilwoman Sherri Myers, who said last week during a City Council agenda meeting that she would like to see a city-wide ban on skateboard, told the News Journal that her comments were not meant to be taken seriously and have been blown out of proportion.

"... People who really don't keep up with me and know my thinking on things may have taken it the wrong way," Myers said. "I'm sorry if people took it the wrong way. I would never pass or even if such a thing ever came before the council — which it will not — I wouldn't support it."

During the April 9 meeting, Councilman Brian Spencer was trying to get an add-on to the City Council agenda to ban skateboarding in Veterans Memorial Park. Myers responded to the proposal by saying she would like to see an amendment that extended the ban to the entire city.

"I don't see why it should be limited to just certain areas of the city," Myers said at the April 9 meeting. "Why the whole entire city should not have a higher standard of quality of life."

Spencer's add-on item failed by a 4-1 vote.

Meanwhile, Myers' comment was shared on social media and drew a response from Jon Shell, founder of Upward Intuition, a local nonprofit raising money to build a world-class skateboard park in Pensacola.

Chase Marcanio skateboards along East Heinberg Street in Pensacola on Thursday, April 19, 2018. Marcanio is happy to hear that Pensacola will not be imposing a citywide ban.(Photo: Gregg Pachkowski/gregg@pnj.com)

"There's such a huge demographic of skateboarders here in Pensacola, and I think with 93 parks and no public skate park — especially having so many public parks where you're not even allowed to skate — I think that we need to be able to work together to offer up a solution for skateboarders, bikers and Rollerbladers," Shell said last week.

Myers told the News Journal this week she made the comment out of frustration because so much of the council's energy is spent on focusing on downtown Pensacola.

She said she agreed the city needed more skate parks and better sidewalks for skateboarders and people with disabilities.

"Why don't we have more skateboard parks, and why aren't they in the north end of the city?" Myers said. "And why aren't our sidewalks usable? Skateboarders, a lot of them skate in the street because the sidewalk are not accessible."

Myers' district contains much of the northern part of the city, and she said the city government often ignores that part of the city.

"My whole point is, it's like we (in the north end) are not part of the city," Myers said. "Our commercial core, they don't do anything to improve it, don't care about it except the money we make. That was really the point I was trying to make when I made the remark I made."

Chase Marcanio, left, watches as Tommy Printiss goes airborne while skateboarding along East Heinberg Street in Pensacola on Thursday, April 19, 2018. Both skateboarders are happy to hear that Pensacola will not be imposing a citywide ban.(Photo: Gregg Pachkowski/gregg@pnj.com)

Spencer's proposal was actually an amendment to an existing ordinance that already bans skateboarding on Palafox Street south of Cervantes Street and roughly two blocks on either side of Palafox Street.

That ordinance also allows property owners to ban skateboarding by posting a "No Skateboarding" sign on the property and also prohibits skating on things "intended to serve as a handrail, a fence, a wall, a step, a fountain, or a bench."

Skating in a banned area carries an initial noncriminal fine of $10, capping at $50 for multiple offenses, while skating on any of the prohibited items, such as handrail, carries a $500 noncriminal fine and up to 80 hours of community service.

Spencer told the News Journal that he will not bring his amendment back to council but instead will be sponsoring Shell to give a presentation to the City Council.